Prayers Answered

Stuart Shepard, a director for Focus on the Family, asked his religious viewers on their show Stoplight to pray for rain during Sen. Obama's final speech at the DNC Convention.

His hope was that there was so much rain falling at Mile High (yeah, yeah, Invesco Field) that the cameras couldn't pick him out. Denver had clear skies and a beautiful temperature that night.

The RNC Convention however, finally getting started up in Minnesota, has been delayed for rain, tons of it, coming from Hurricane Gustav and soon-to-be its little sister Hanna. Hurricanes can't affect Minnesota, you say? True, Minnesota is as dry as it normally is this time of year. But all of the headliners for the convention serve in the southern U.S.

Now I could make arguments about whose side God is on, or about karma torpedoes backfiring, or about Climate Change shooting the Republicans right in the foot, but instead of all that, I think I'll just do as Sen. Obama asks of us: Donate some money to relief funds and volunteer for cleanup efforts in the affected areas.

Footnote: I'm not flippant about the danger to those in the path of the 'cane. My smugness is present only because the affected regions managed to avoid significant damage since the path deviated at the end and it missed the heavily populated areas.